HRES 209 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of taking a feminist approach to all aspects of foreign policy, including foreign assistance and humanitarian response, trade, diplomacy, defense, immigration, funding, and accountability mechanisms.

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 8, 2023 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Progress

Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A simple resolution is the business of one chamber alone: it is not sent to the other chamber or to the President, and does not become law.

  1. IntroducedMar 8, 2023
  2. Agreed to in HouseNot reached

Summary

This resolution supports the goals of a feminist foreign policy (i.e., a foreign policy that requires analysis of and challenges to power structures and inequalities that are based on systems of discrimination). The resolution also supports the adoption of policies that promote gender equity and the participation of women and girls in public life.

Cosponsors 47

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 8, 2023 to Jun 25, 2024, with 43 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-NHAnn M. KusterOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-CAAnna G. EshooOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-MAAyanna PressleyOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-MNBetty McCollumOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-NJBonnie Watson ColemanOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-CABrad ShermanOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-RIDavid N. CicillineOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-FLDebbie Wasserman SchultzOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-NVDina TitusOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-NYGrace MengOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-MIHaley M. StevensOriginalMar 8, 2023
D-GAHenry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.OriginalMar 8, 2023
D-MNIlhan OmarOriginalMar 8, 2023

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 8, 2023Introduced in House
  2. Mar 8, 2023Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.

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  1. Mar 8, 2023Introduced in House

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